Soap Scented Silence is a study in sensory contradiction. A figure sits immobilized in luxury—silk, champagne, flowers—yet her face remains hidden, obscured by bloom. The title suggests fragrance, tenderness, domestic ritual. The image contradicts it: luxury becomes constraint; flowers become mask.
In this painting, the Faceless Flowers series reaches its most deliberately provocative moment. The work was created for the juried exhibition "TOO HOT"—a project that invited artists to explore excess, desire, and the spaces where beauty and discomfort converge. Soap Scented Silence doesn't resolve that tension. It inhabits it.
The figure gazes upward, blind. Pink hair catches turquoise light. Peonies and feathered blooms replace her eyes, her nose, her mouth. She is rendered immobile and visible simultaneously—a paradox in paint.
ABOUT THE SERIES
Faceless Flowers is Dina Doyle's ongoing investigation of identity, concealment, and the quiet power of what remains unseen. Each painting features a figure whose face is softened, hidden, or transformed by floral imagery. Where traditional portraiture aims to capture likeness, these works ask what is revealed—and what is obscured—when the face becomes landscape.
Soap Scented Silence stands apart: it is the series at its most confrontational, asking difficult questions about beauty, desire, agency, and the female gaze.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Dina Doyle is a contemporary figurative painter based in Rhode Island. Her work has been exhibited at Newport Art Museum, Bristol Art Museum, Providence Art Club, and New England Art Center (Boston). She was featured in the juried exhibition "TOO HOT" and is known for paintings that explore the intersection of silence, observation, and the space between visibility and concealment.
Each print is individually produced to order, ensuring archival quality and longevity. Framing is hand-assembled by local Rhode Island craftspeople. All prints ship insured.
Size and framing options available.
• Ayous wood .75″ (1.9 cm) thick frame from renewable forests
• Paper thickness: 10.3 mil (0.26 mm)
• Paper weight: 189 g/m²
• Lightweight
• Acrylite front protector
• Hanging hardware included
• Blank product components in the US sourced from Japan and the US
• Blank product components in the EU sourced from Japan and Latvia
This product is made especially for you as soon as you place an order, which is why it takes us a bit longer to deliver it to you. Making products on demand instead of in bulk helps reduce overproduction, so thank you for making thoughtful purchasing decisions!
Soap Scented Silence is a study in sensory contradiction. A figure sits immobilized in luxury—silk, champagne, flowers—yet her face remains hidden, obscured by bloom. The title suggests fragrance, tenderness, domestic ritual. The image contradicts it: luxury becomes constraint; flowers become mask.
In this painting, the Faceless Flowers series reaches its most deliberately provocative moment. The work was created for the juried exhibition "TOO HOT"—a project that invited artists to explore excess, desire, and the spaces where beauty and discomfort converge. Soap Scented Silence doesn't resolve that tension. It inhabits it.
The figure gazes upward, blind. Pink hair catches turquoise light. Peonies and feathered blooms replace her eyes, her nose, her mouth. She is rendered immobile and visible simultaneously—a paradox in paint.
ABOUT THE SERIES
Faceless Flowers is Dina Doyle's ongoing investigation of identity, concealment, and the quiet power of what remains unseen. Each painting features a figure whose face is softened, hidden, or transformed by floral imagery. Where traditional portraiture aims to capture likeness, these works ask what is revealed—and what is obscured—when the face becomes landscape.
Soap Scented Silence stands apart: it is the series at its most confrontational, asking difficult questions about beauty, desire, agency, and the female gaze.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Dina Doyle is a contemporary figurative painter based in Rhode Island. Her work has been exhibited at Newport Art Museum, Bristol Art Museum, Providence Art Club, and New England Art Center (Boston). She was featured in the juried exhibition "TOO HOT" and is known for paintings that explore the intersection of silence, observation, and the space between visibility and concealment.
Each print is individually produced to order, ensuring archival quality and longevity. Framing is hand-assembled by local Rhode Island craftspeople. All prints ship insured.
Size and framing options available.
• Ayous wood .75″ (1.9 cm) thick frame from renewable forests
• Paper thickness: 10.3 mil (0.26 mm)
• Paper weight: 189 g/m²
• Lightweight
• Acrylite front protector
• Hanging hardware included
• Blank product components in the US sourced from Japan and the US
• Blank product components in the EU sourced from Japan and Latvia
This product is made especially for you as soon as you place an order, which is why it takes us a bit longer to deliver it to you. Making products on demand instead of in bulk helps reduce overproduction, so thank you for making thoughtful purchasing decisions!
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